Cardiac development
By: Margaret Loewy Kirby.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780195178197
Subjects: Heart -- Growth; Heart -- embryology; Heart -- growth & development; Heart -- innervation; Heart Conduction System -- embryology; Myocardium
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of cardiac morphogenesis; title: Vascular development; title: Cardiogenic fields and heart tube formation; title: Induction and differentiation of the working myocardium; title: Functional developmental biology of the myocardium / by Tony Creazzo; title: Development of the inflow and outflow segments; title: Molecular control of looping; title: chamber specification and ventricular septation; title: Endocardium, cardiac cushions and valve development; title: Epicardium and coronary vessel development; title: Neural crest, great arteries and outflow septation; title: Development of the cardiac pacemaking and conduction system; title: Innervation of the developing heart; title: Evolutionary developmental biology of the heart / co-authored with Fred Schachat; title: Some new insights into the embryogenesis of heart; title: Myocardial stem cells.